[1920, November 30 or December 1]

To Stalin

In my opinion:

1) Do not reduce transports now: 5, and not 5 (if 8 is impossible, then *maxim*).

2) In the Caucasus hold (and send there) not 12 inf + 6 cav-div. = 18 (why so many?),
but 
**approximately half** ¹.

Lenin

[1920, December 3]

Thus, I am for 8 new divisions (transporting 5 echelons per day) ².

Lenin

¹ Written on the report submitted by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic S. S. Kamenev and member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic K. Kh. Danishevsky to the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic dated November 30, 1920. The report concerned the question that strengthening the Caucasus should be accomplished not by transferring new divisions there, but by increasing the manpower and improving the divisions already stationed there.

Lenin numbered the pages of the report, on page 1 he wrote: "To Stalin see p. 4" and on page 4 he wrote the text of the memorandum.

² Written on a memorandum from I. V. Stalin on this question dated December 3, 1920.

# NOTES FROM A MEETING ON THE WORK OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOOD SUPPLY ¹

3. XII. 1920

1) Introduce workers into other departments

Tsyurupa
Bryukhanov }
Sviderskiy /

15 people from trade unions, of them 13 were here. All only in the Distribution Department.

2) Firmly conduct a policy of rapprochement with the working masses

3) The same in the provinces...

4) Only comrade Khalatov satisfies the correct policy of drawing the Commissariat of Food Supply closer to workers...

Yesterday the collegium of the Commissariat of Food Supply changed Khalatov's plan, the only one satisfying to the workers.

| Obolenskiy
| Khalatov
| Smirnov
| Lobachev
| Lobachev —
| Khinchuk
| Frumkin²

Khalatov in the Distribution Directorate conducted only this policy.

The principle—so to speak—of targeted supply (to reserve in advance for workers) is conducted only by Khalatov; even Lobachev did not understand it.

There are some sort of "favorites" and some sort of "opposition" in the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply.

There—so to speak—is a "Ufa group," its narrow interests...

Extreme dissatisfaction with comrade Sviderskiy, who—so to speak—does not know the work, does not know the Commissariat of Food Supply...

| Comrade Khalatov in fact does not conduct work in the Distribution Department

| one is not enough in the Distribution Department.

{ Retain Khalatov in the same place and as member of the collegium }

To the Commission for Review of the Distribution Plan for XII 1920, only Lobachev is suitable...

[Smirnov]
< Bryukhanov //
(Sviderskiy) )
Khalatov must be retained at the head of the Distribution Department...

The rest—so to speak—are cut off from the masses...

(members of the collegium)

Spoke:

Representative of Petrograd metalworkers...

Representative of Ivanovo-Voznesensk textile workers...

The demands of the metalworkers
» of communal workers
Nogin³...

Kirill Orlov... from the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions (trade unionist) member of the commission on workers' supply.

12. XI. 1920: Extend to a number of institutions.

1. X. in the Council of People's Commissars. 6. XI. 1920 in the Council of People's Commissars
Approved (Sklyansky + Bryukhanov) ⁴
400,000 employees of the military department in the rear: a storm of indignation among the workers.

remove them from the Red Army ration (in the general procedure, through the Committee on Workers' Supply).

In the Commissariat of Food Supply—so to speak—specialists from the remnants of the bourgeoisie, poor people.—————routine—so to speak.

The bourgeoisie—so to speak—hid from the revolutionary tempest.

ask Tsyurupa

If—so to speak—all the other members of the collegium of the Commissariat of Food Supply were removed, we would not object (except Lobachev)...

Comrade Tsyurupa—so to speak—officially declared to Khalatov that he is a harmful man in the Commissariat of Food Supply.

NB

The conduct of Khalatov in the Donbass (Khalatov's clash with Vladimirov) is held against him.

¹ On December 3, 1920, a meeting was held of representatives of Petrograd metalworkers, Ivanovo-Voznesensk textile workers, the Central Committee of the Union of Metalworkers, the Central Committee of the Union of Communal Workers, and others on the question of the work of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply; Lenin, participating in the meeting, writes these notes.

On December 8, 1920, a Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) took place, which adopted a resolution to free A. I. Sviderskiy from his position as member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, and in his stead to introduce A. B. Khalatov. In addition, the Plenum of the Central Committee obligated the People's Commissariat of Food Supply to adopt more vigorous measures to introduce workers into the administration of all departments.

² A. D. Tsyurupa — People's Commissar of Food Supply of the RSFSR.

N. P. Bryukhanov — Deputy People's Commissar of Food Supply of the RSFSR.

A. I. Sviderskiy — party member from 1899. After the October Socialist Revolution — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, then member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspection.

N. Osinsky (V. V. Obolenskiy) — party member from 1907. After the October Socialist Revolution — in responsible Soviet and economic work. At this time — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply.

A. P. Smirnov — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply of the RSFSR.

I. S. Lobachev — party member from 1917. Participant in the October Socialist Revolution. At this time — member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply of the RSFSR.

M. I. Frumkin — party member from 1898. From 1918 to March 1922 — member of the collegium, then deputy People's Commissar of Food Supply.

L. M. Khinchuk — party member from 1920. From 1921 to 1926 — chairman of the board of the Central Union of Cooperatives. At this time — member of the board of the Moscow Workers' Cooperative.

A. B. Khalatov — party member from 1917. At this time — chairman of the Commission of the Council of People's Commissars on Workers' Supply.

³ V. P. Nogin — party member from 1898. After the victory of the October Socialist Revolution entered the Council of People's Commissars as People's Commissar of Trade and Industry. At this time — member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

⁴ Referring to the decrees of the Council of Labor and Defense and the Council of People's Commissars.

On October 1, 1920, at a session of the Council of Labor and Defense under the chairmanship of Lenin, a draft decree was adopted concerning the procedure for supplying the Red Army ration to the military department.

On November 6, 1920, at a session of the Council of People's Commissars under the chairmanship of Lenin, a decision was adopted: to confirm the decree of the Council of Labor and Defense of October 1, 1920; to approve the draft decree on the Red Army ration.

On November 12, 1920, at a session of the Council of Labor and Defense under the chairmanship of Lenin, a decision was adopted to approve an explanation concerning the extension of the decree of the Council of Labor and Defense of October 1, 1920, on the Red Army ration to military personnel of the organs of the Chief Administration of Sanitation, Chief Administration of Military Supply and Food, distribution organs of the United Supply Administration for the Red Army, and employees of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection seconded to work in military and naval units, institutions, and establishments.

M. K. Vladimirov — chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Southern Front.

# LETTER TO THE KREMLIN COMMANDANT'S OFFICE

[December 3, 1920]

To the Kremlin Commandant's Office

I am informing you that the sentry standing today, 3/XII, around 12 o'clock noon at the post at the Trinity Gate, failed to detach the control coupon from a one-time pass into the Kremlin.

Since this was done by him through misunderstanding, the aforementioned sentry is not subject to any disciplinary measures.

It is necessary to report to me immediately whether any punitive measures have been applied to this sentry; inform me of his name and surname *.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

*In response to this letter, Lenin received a report that at this time the duty personnel at the Trinity Gate were cadets D. Tikhonov and M. Artemov and that no disciplinary measures were applied to them. On the report Lenin writes: "**PRESERVE**."